Family members rushed over from their homes in Pinconning to the west side of the state to begin searching for Woodruff as soon as they heard from his employer that he did not come to work on Monday, April 29. Police joined family members and friends in the search.

They continued searching in and around downtown Saugatuck as a thunderstorm came across Lake Michigan Tuesday morning, according to the missing man's brother, Jeffrey Woodruff. They filed a missing person report with Michigan State Police and Saugatuck firefighters and search and rescue crews responded to search the woods and water.

Woodruff's phone was found nearby the bar where he was last seen, in a park not far from Kalamazoo Lake.

Saugatuck firefighters used ATVs and boats to search the woods and water. Michigan State Police also launched a search boat and were working on getting a plane to fly over the area Tuesday, Woodruff said.

View full sizeJeffrey Woodruff was last seen in Saugatuck on Saturday, April 27.

They are searching the inland lake and have scoured the woods and ditches between the bar and Woodruff's apartment, Becky Woodruff said.

"We're still searching," Becky Woodruff said. "We've got all kinds of people coming over from the east side of the state."

She welcomes anyone who wants to help with the search to meet at Elbo Room, 800 Holland, where the search party has been meeting regularly, Woodruff said.

Members of the search party began knocking on doors on Tuesday afternoon, Woodruff said.

"We need to know if somebody saw him leave on foot," she said.

But nearly one day into the search effort, Woodruff said the family is "running out of ideas" and hoping some new information might help them locate her son.

The family is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to him being found, Woodruff said.

"It doesn't look good," she said Tuesday. "I think he's either hurt somewhere waiting for us to find him or, the worst."

The family is "very close," Woodrfuff said, and they were planning to go to a Detroit Tigers game for the Jordan Woodruff's birthday. Instead, the 22-year-old is spending his birthday searching for his missing brother.

"We last talked to him on Saturday and we were talking about the plans all day," Becky Woodruff said.

"It's a horrible feeling being at his apartment," she said, noting he lived on Washington.

"I'm waiting for him to come in and say, 'What are you guys doing here?'" she said. "I just want to be humiliated and embarrassed that we went through this whole thing, but I don't think that will happen."